ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: FEATURES,
SIGNIFICANCE AND WAYS TO ORGANIZE SOCIAL SCIENCE ROOM AND MUSEUM
Submitted by:
PREETHI
P.KURIAN
1.
SOCIAL SCIENCE ROOM:
Social
science room stands for a big room of suitable size situated at an appropriate
place within the campus of a school. Besides being an effective place for
carrying out the formal theoretical and practical classroom activities of
social science, it also accommodates all essential material, aids and
equipments related to the teaching-learning of the subject.
IMPORTANCE
OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROOM
The
establishment and maintenance of a social science room may be justified on the
ground that a variety of benefits can be derived through such an establishment.
These benefits in general may be summarized as follows:
a. It
may help in the safe and secure keep up of the needed material, aids and
equipments in a suitable and organized way, helpful in the appropriate teaching
and learning of social science.
b. It
helps in saving the time and energy of both the teachers and students of social
science through an easy location and timely availability of the needed
material, aids and equipments on account of their orderly, systematic and
category-wise placing in the social science room.
c. It
helps in providing an appropriate environment for the teaching-learning of the
subject social science by making the students attracted towards the charts,
pictures, photographs, maps, diagrams, graphs, time lines, cartoons and posters
put on the walls.
d. The
facilities available in the social science room may help in providing proper
opportunities to the students for their self-expression and mutual exchange of
curricular and co-curricular programmes in the shape of panel and group
discussions, seminars, workshops, quizzes and word search programmes, etc.
e. The
use of social science room is specially limited to the teaching-learning of the
subject social science; there is no need to bring any change in the set-up of
the room.
TYPES OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROOM
After taking into account the planning
about the place, accommodation, building and furniture of the social science
room, the next thing that needs immediate consideration is the planning about
the things and material to be kept in this room for serving the required
purpose, a social science teacher may plan for the procurement and keep up of
the follows:
·
Various type of graphic material like
pictures, photographs, charts, maps, diagrams, cartoons, posters, graphs,
timelines and statistical data being displayed on the walls of the social
science room for showing useful information and knowledge as well as making the
room’s environment attractive and motivational towards learning.
·
Chalk boards and other wooden, plastic,
cloth or magnetic board hanging on the walls.
·
Bulletin boards and magnetic boards for
displaying information in and outside the social science classrooms.
·
Various types of graphic aid material
for using in the effective teaching-learning of the subject.
·
Various type of three- dimensional teaching
aids material like models, specimen, real objects and dioramas.
·
The book and study material related to
the social science library like textbooks, reference books, journals,
magazines, and bulletins and material collected from the newspapers and magazines.
·
Various types of files, cabinets, boxes,
stands, racks, cupboards and packing materials for the collection and safe
placing of the materials and equipment belonging to the social science
2.
SOCIAL SCIENCE MUSEUM:
Organization
of social science museum can be taken up as a co-curricular activity. Museums
have a great educative value. These are recreation centers also. These contain
non-reading materials, which presents valuable information concerning the past
periods. Events, persons, etc. are presented in the form of real objects,
pictures, drawings, etc. The museums can procure and maintain various materials
that could be effectively used in class room teaching. These can be collected,
classified and exhibited by students and teachers. It provides insights into
how people lived, how society has progressed and how science has developed
since time immemorial. It stimulates enthusiasm for deep study and research
among students as well as teachers.
IMPORTANCE
The
secondary education commission has rightly remarked that, “museums play a great
part in the education of school children
as they bring home to them much more vividly than any prosaic lectures, the
discoveries of the past and the various developments that have taken place in
many fields of science and technology.”
1.
Museum contains real objects of
historical, geographical, scientific and cultural importance which can make
social science learning dynamic.
2.
These develop interest among learners to
accumulate, preserve, classify and put on reference worthwhile informative
material.
3.
These throw light on political, social,
cultural and artistic developments of different periods in different countries.
4.
The teacher can take the students to the
museum to observe relevant material if available, before or after teaching a
particular lesson.
5.
It makes the teaching of social science
lively and provides direct experience.
6.
It helps to inculcate values such as
national integration and international understanding.
7.
It adds reality to teaching, and makes
children active. It encourages curiosity band self-education.
8.
It increases power for thinking and
imagination and creativity among students.
9.
If articles prepared by students are
worthwhile and these could become items of the museum. This recognition will
encourage learning by doing and also provides reinforcement.
10.
The social science museum can motivate
students to prepare exhibition and satisfy their urge for construction and
creativity.
USES OF SOCIAL SCIENCE MUSEUM
1. Museum
would be airy and well ventilated.
2. Articles
should be securely placed.
3. The
title and date should be mentioned on the object along with information about
its procurement.
4. Insecticides
may be used when necessary
5. Children
should not be allowed to touch the objects
6. A
list of the objects placed in the museum should be maintained
7. The
exhibits should be carefully cleaned and handled with care.
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